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Volume 15 - October 1999

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Going out (of) the window?
Maria Estling
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17 October 2008, pp. 22-27
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A corpus-based study of competing prepositional constructions in American and British English

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Crossworld
Frank Palmer
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17 October 2008, p. 21
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English and the culture of the Yoruba
Adeyeye Samson Dare
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17 October 2008, pp. 17-22
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Some aspects of the sociocultural and linguistic problems of teaching English to students of one of Nigeria's major language groups

Trading tongues: loss of heritage languages in the United States
Leanne Hinton
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17 October 2008, pp. 21-30
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Excerpts from the ‘language biographies’ of children of Asian immigrants who have grown up in America

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Plurals of Latin loanwords: a report on LANGSCAPE 4
Pam Peters
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17 October 2008, pp. 28-32
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International English in the global village
Marko Modiano
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17 October 2008, pp. 22-28
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A novel view of how English might or should be modelled at the turn of the millennium – followed by some solicited comments

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Crossworld
Frank Palmer
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17 October 2008, p. 23
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Marginalizing grammar
R. A. Buck
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17 October 2008, pp. 31-35
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An account of how grammar is being marginalized in the American university English curriculum.

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The Name's the Same
Jon G. Auerbach
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17 October 2008, pp. 36-37
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The evaluation of errors and 21st-century structure and usage
Samuel Ahulu
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17 October 2008, pp. 33-39
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A proposal for a reasonable form of prescription that would help take the teaching and testing of English into the coming century

Schooled and open Englishes
Tony Fairman
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17 October 2008, pp. 24-30
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A response to John Honey's article ‘The straw hippopotamus’ (ET55, Jul 98) and his recent book ‘Language is Power’ (1997)

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Linguistic assets
Michael Toolan
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17 October 2008, pp. 28-29
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Forty years of official bilingualism in cameroon
Jean-Paul Kouega
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17 October 2008, pp. 38-43
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An appraisal of the promotion of a policy of official French/English bilingualism in operation since 1961

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There ain't no grammaticality here
Michael Bulley
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17 October 2008, pp. 40-41
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MICHAEL BULLEY provides a postscript to the Universal Grammar debate

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In defence of spelling reform
Christopher Upward
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17 October 2008, pp. 31-34
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The Editor-in-Chief of the Simplified Spelling Society responds to David Crystal

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Pertinent, but not a contradiction of Kachru
Augustin Simo-Bobda
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17 October 2008, pp. 29-30
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Life, language and the things linguists look at
Patrick Honeybone
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-41
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A further reply to Michael Bulley's criticism of Chomskyan linguistics

The dominance of English among Liberian children
Bernard L. Ngovo
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17 October 2008, pp. 44-48
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An inquiry into the language in primary use among children of Liberian parents in Liberia and the United States

The apostrophe: use and misuse
Donald Hook
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17 October 2008, pp. 42-49
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Taxi's stop here says a sign – Bus' across the street says another. – Joes hamburger's says a third: a descriptive/prescriptive look at a troublesome symbol

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Global english
Loreto Todd
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17 October 2008, pp. 30-31
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